North Central California – Willits to Tahoe

Ridgewood Ranch In searching for a convenient overnight stop between Fortuna and Vacaville, I stumbled across an RV park located in Willits, California. It caught my attention because it was located on the same ranch where Seabiscuit is buried. The fabled race horse of the the Thirties spent his retirement here eating oats and fathering […]

Northern California – The Redwoods

Most visitors enter the redwoods from the South, coming up US 101 from San Francisco. This approach gives you a bit of a gradual introduction to the big trees; you see a few mixed in with the pines and firs in Mendocino County, then the redwoods become more frequent and the stands denser as you […]

Humboldt County CA – Ferndale & The Lost Coast

Welcome to SoHum Humboldt County has more coastline than any other County in California. Most of the County’s population is concentrated near Humboldt Bay in the cities of Eureka, Arcata and Fortuna, leaving the mountainous and forested areas largely vacant of humans. In my grandfather’s day, this meant the land along the coastal King Range […]